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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
A man after my own heart!!!! Gutted started my quest for collecting my "bag of tricks." His encouragement when I was a rather confused fleet boat skipper wondering if there were any tricks I could learn from the U-Boat people started the whole Bag of Tricks thread and is directly responsible for the Dick O'Kane technique and indirectly responsible for all the other constant bearing techniques and wrinkles I have developed.
Gutted sent me a very simple animated gif that began all the madness, along with his lead angle chart he's talked about.
And there you see the genesis of the Dick O'Kane technique, posted and sent to me 8/19/2007 by gutted. At the time he was strictly a U-Boat jockey who had spent limited time in a fleet boat. He jumped into a thread where an upstart called Cali03boss was stinkin' it up and with one post started a revolution in Silent Hunter 4. (In the formula above, it should say arctangent instead of inverse_tangent, but there's the key to the universe, right there!  ) |
This discussion and the fact I am currently reading Wahoo written by the Rear Admiral has me pondering this. At least when O'kane is XO he and Mush normally were shooting 120 AOB shots. Should I be? You would need a different chart for that I would expect? IIRC he wrote that made it harder to maneuver away from the shot.
Now I also wonder if he kept doing that after getting his own command or did he start going for 90 shots?